The Descent of Mann

A climate change scientist who's been getting heat of late is planning to sue the makers of a youtube video spoofing the climate change racket. From FOX News:

Michael Mann, one of the central figures in the recent climate-data scandal, is best known for his "hockey stick graph," which was the key visual aid in explaining how the world is warming at an alarming rate and in connecting the rise to the increase in use of carbon fuels in this century. E-mails stolen from a university in England were released online, revealing exchanges between climatologists and a reference to a "trick" that Mann had used to get the graph to portray what global warming scientists wanted to see.

The parody video, titled "Hide the Decline," had more than 500,000 viewers on YouTube and received national attention when Rush Limbaugh played it on his radio show. It features a cat with a guitar, a talking tree, and a dancing figure sporting the image of Professor Mann. It's the use of his image that Mann is complaining about, arguing that the video supports "efforts to sell various products and merchandise."

Oh, so you mean he's not objecting to being made a laughingstock of due to his questionable/dubious science; he's upset that they're using his image to sell stuff? Now there's a chap who has his priorities straight.